Metonymic and metaphoric mappings in morphology: a case study. Lampropoulou Martha PhD candidate School of English Thessaloniki Cognitive Linguistics Reading Group Aristotle University 25-04-2014. Questionnaire.

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Prerequisites for productivity are taken into account such as a. type frequency b. semantic coherence and the ability to build new forms (Bauer 2001, Plag 2003)

Experimental part

Participants: 51 Czech participants

130 German participants

University students

Age: 20-30 years old

Material: online questionnaire via email

Duration: 7-10 minutes

Material: non existent words with the verb suffixes –ize and –ify, and the nominal suffixes –hood, -ship and -dom

Pilot study: 20 participants, university students

Possible words

Bossify

Childify

Gossipize

Silverize

Perfumize

Cookdom

Farmdom

Orchestrahood

Dragonhoood

etc.

-ize (Marchand, 1969)

recorded in Old Greek - both transitive and intransitive verbs

the group of transitive verbs is the stronger one

The prinicipal semantic types with transitive verbs are the following:

a) legalize‘render, make …..’ (the regular type with deadjectival verbs)

b) itemize‘convert into, put into the form of, give the character or shape of ….’ As in dramatize, editorialize, fictionize, picturize, satirize, methodize, monopolize, systematize, motorize, robotize, unitize.

- dom

is a suffix which has congeners in all Germanic languages except Gothic.

In Old English it was a full substantive (dōm) with the meaning ‘juridiction, state, statute’ which formed compounds with adjectival first-words, such as frēodōm (freedom).

In Middle English the suffix developed the sense ‘territory’ with a few words, as dukedom, earldom, kingdom

The suffix is productive in American English. It may be that the influence of German has played a role (compare also AE –fest which is likewise due to German influence), the influence of German is clearly to be seen in translation loans such as Manchesterdom 1882, junkerdom (frequent in World War I)

-ship

forms denominal substantives, chiefly from personal nouns, with the basic meaning ‘state, condition’. The suffix goes back to OE –scipe, scype and has parallels in other Germanic languages.